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Joseph A Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

Grammar

Hello everyone,

Is either "such...as" or "such...like" correct in the following sentence?

There no such word as/like that in the text.

I think "like" is correct.

Regards,

Joseph

  

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Joseph A There no such word as/like that in the text. There is no such word in the text. There is no such thing as a zombie.

— Anonymous

  • Joseph A There no such word as/like that in the text.
  • There is no such word in the text.
  • There is no such thing as a zombie.
  • "Like" does not work in this structure.
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Joseph AThere no such word as/like that in the text.

There is no such word in the text.

There is no such thing as a zombie.

"Like" does not work in this structure.

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Joseph AIs either "such...as" or "such...like" correct in the following sentence?
There no such word as/like that in the text.

Yes. You will hear or see this expression with "like" instead of "as", but in my opinion "as" sounds a lot better. Besides, the Google Ngram Viewer finds only "no such word as". It can't find any example of "no such word like

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